Brett Lear News Today

JANUARY

The Garfield County Public Library District looks to be back in “good standing,” in the words of County Commission Chairman John Martin, based on the district’s 2022 budget.

Garfield County Public Libraries are gradually staffing back up following the departure of several branch managers earlier this year, including new managers at the Glenwood Springs and Carbondale libraries.

Chelsea Self / Post Independent A spate of recent resignations among branch managers and support staff within the Garfield County Public Library District has fingers pointed in lots of directions, including at the executive director. Functionally, it also has the district scrambling to fill several key positions as it works to rebound from pandemic restrictions and make good on promises contained in the voter-approved 2018 mill levy increase. Some staffers who resigned in recent months said the...

Chelsea Self / Post Independent Garfield County’s libraries are asking for community feedback through a series of focus groups they’ll be conducting over Zoom. James Larson, the marketing and communications manager for the county’s libraries, said some might consider libraries an outdated resource, but they continue to be a place for education and information and want to be as accessible to the needs of community members as possible. “We are a center of knowledge, information, knowledg...